Than mediation. At the end of the day we have constant exchanges with President Trump. I share his goals, hell say he doesnt agree with methods, but i want to get there, i want to have an agreement. And i think theres been a true change. This morning president rohani showed himself to be opening to this meeting happening and President Trump has been saying for weeks hes been demanding and being tough and putting forward sanctions but im ready to have a meeting to make a deal. I think were making progress. I want this meeting to happen and i want there to be an agreement between the United States and iran and france will play the role that its meant to play together with the United Kingdom, with germany and all of the other Signatory Powers and the permanent members of the security council. Iran is a country thats not the same country it was two and a half years ago when i came into office. Iran was the number one state of terror throughout the world. There were 18 sites of confliction
prime minister rabi of japan, also a large purchaser of oil from iran, he was also very much involved and, you know, look, he knows everybody there so he was a very, very positive force. i have to tell you the president s done an excellent job and we re going to see how it all turns out. maybe it works, maybe it doesn t. i say it all the time about everything, maybe it works and maybe it doesn t but i ll tell you what, we made a ridiculous deal, gave them $$150,000,000,001,800,000,000 and we got nothing, we got nothing. and by the way that agreement was so short-term that it expires in a short period of time with a country you don t make a deal that short. countries last for long times and you don t do short-term deals, especially when you re paying that kind of money. so i have good feelings about iran. i have good feelings that it will work. i no many iranians living in new york city have many friends from iran, they re incredible people,
flying off to florida for the weekend where he s apparently been photographed waiting at an omelet bar, you know, the kind of thing you do when america is in crisis. let s be clear, the president of off prompter there, by the way. that probably explains a large part of what we saw unfold there at the white house. so speaking of that speech, one of the interesting things is the president made several eye popping claims during the national emergency declaration. but here is one that caught a lot of attention. i think i can say. prime minister rabi of japan gave me the most beautiful copy of a letter that he sent to the people who give out a thing called a nobel prize. he said i have nominated you or respectfully on behalf of japan, i am asking them to give you the nobel peace prize. i said thank you, many other people feel that way, too.